Example sentences of "sets up " in BNC.

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1 Not that T. Behrens sets up as a psychologist .
2 He sets up long , colourful and emotional speeches that are in turn both funny , beautiful and violent , and his work can not be compared with anything that has preceded him .
3 Such a view of ‘ sociology ’ sets up another binary derived from the police preference for a Manichaean world created on homologies of ‘ good — evil ’ , and further reflects the ferocious resistance to and fear of change which permeates the organization ( see for example Weatheritt 1986 , Butler 1984 , and Adams 1988 ) .
4 ‘ People in Bavaria say it is crazy not to have tall cylindro-conicals in a wholly ultra-modern brewery , ’ says Brombach , ‘ but I think that kind of vessel sets up a convection that makes for dirty beer . ’
5 He sets up poetry , rhetoric , and textuality , as against the myth of presence , the poem as the life-blood of a master spirit , and the Romantic ideal of expressiveness .
6 It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall .
7 The local hospital even sets up a Hallowe'en candy X-ray service .
8 The charity sets up projects , often connected with the arts , to persuade people to value their surroundings , regardless of whether they are unusual or not .
9 If the manager collects the money , the artist may insist the manager sets up a completely separate bank account .
10 After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide .
11 South Africa 's rebel policeman sets up union .
12 And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down .
13 The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the barrister 's preserve .
14 The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the preserve of barristers .
15 And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down .
16 Toshiba Divisional Championship : London 28 , South-West 12 Incisive midfield sets up fine finale .
17 It has only two options for collecting repayments of loans worth up to £460 a year — an income tax surcharge , or increased national insurance contributions — unless it sets up an even more costly mechanism .
18 But it also sets up a fight between a firm 's shareholders and its other creditors .
19 Korah sets up an alternative people of God ( the Hebrew term translated ‘ company ’ in the RSV in verse 5 and beyond is the same as ‘ congregation ’ in verse 2 and elsewhere , which is used to refer to Israel as a whole ) .
20 As a snow crystal grows in free fall , the angular deviation within the molecules sets up stresses and the hexagon will not close completely .
21 Modulation sets up a structural series that echoes the mutative processes of nature .
22 One resembles a small trowel with a knurled wheel , that sets up a vibration to help the seeds drop off the end in a controlled way — a useful aid for sowing in straight lines .
23 Sometimes in drama a teacher deliberately sets up a structure that appears to lack any obvious game element .
24 If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde .
25 It not only imposes a duty to pay , but also sets up ( not necessarily in the same statute ) the machinery for collecting and distributing the money .
26 Such natural impediments aside the real problem is that however still one tries to remain , one 's own body sets up waves which destroy the reflections which are such an intrinsic part of the sought after image .
27 In The Alexandria Quartet ( 1957 — 60 ) , for example , Lawrence Durrell 's narrator Darley sets up and discusses aesthetic paradoxes , including ones affecting the text in which he figures , quite often enough to justify Durrell 's view that , as a whole , ‘ the novel is only half secretly about art , the great subject of modern artists ’ ( in Cowley 1963 : 231 ) .
28 The political implications of Sukenick 's experimentation can be seen clearly in his second novel Out ( 1973 ) , which sets up a journey as structural metaphor in order to comment on the political temper of the late Nixon years .
29 His first novel , Another Roadside Attraction ( 1971 ) , sets up a ludicrous adventure plot in which two ‘ heroes ’ attempt to carry the mummified remains of Jesus ( seized from t base for a whole series of chronological divergences and a parallel plot in which a zoo and hot-dog joint , together , are established as the roadside attraction to the title .
30 His search , mocked at every turn by events and other characters , sets up a tenuous connecting thread which links a whole series of episodes set in different places and periods .
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